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by cjsplat 7mo ago
What should they have done? They put Ghislaine Maxwell in jail then had to wait until her appeal about Epstein's immunity deal made it to the Supreme Court.
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
The safety stats are per road mile, so it is normalized. https://waymo.com/safety/impact/
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
A lot of human drivers blasted through intersections with lights that were out. There were indeed accidents, and so yes, human cars were in fact stopped in the middle of traffic.
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
I've heard from English and German visitors that 4 way intersections are frequently disambiguated by a concept of priority roads, and they seem surprised by the relatively smaller number of intersections in SF that stop only one of the
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
The Tesla example is a single oncoming car, clear right of way, and ample time in a simple 4-way intersection. The Waymo video has over a dozen cars, at least 6 pedestrians crossing streets (many more on the sidewalks), and is a 5-way inter
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
I saw plenty of Waymos managing to make it through intersections. They were slow and tentative, but definitely made forward progress. I think the emergency "phone home" protocol requires a phone, presumably with enough channel cap
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
So maybe the point was to consider a different store or route. Or look at the traffic and decide if you REALLY want to spend an hour or more in gridlock for whatever activity you are considering. And maybe wherever you wanted to go is close
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
Actually that is specifically not true at Google, and I expect it applies to Waymo also. People get promoted for running DiTR exercises and addressing the issues that are exposed. Of course the problem is that you can't DiRT all the va
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
Yes, that is the same law in California, but so many people drift through stop signs that the guidance is close to meaningless. In addition, there are 4-way stop signs all over SF and tourists regularly comment on how they work here. The la
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by cjsplat 9mo ago
I was driving across the east side of SF and hit a patch of lights that were out. The Waymo's were just going really slow through the intersection. It seemed that the "light is out means 4-way stop" dynamic caused them to go
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by cjsplat 10mo ago
Umm - there was a network capable computer and a display. There was no way to build that for $100 to $200 at that time. Our Cobalt Networks boxes were about $1k. Take out the disk, add the display. Just because the software makes it a thin
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by cjsplat 1y ago
This was obviously going to happen once they turned the Village into Portmeirion Hotel.
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by cjsplat 2y ago
SF is worse, except for the snow. You can complain about Boston drivers, but they are pretty predictable compared to SF tourists. Snow is an issue, but they'll get that done.
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by cjsplat 2y ago
Lots of surplus power in any ICE vehicle. 1 HP is over 700 watts. A few extra HP to generate power isn't any big deal.
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by cjsplat 3y ago
You need to distinguish "hardware" and "consumer hardware". Google wouldn't exist as you know it if they didn't didn't build great data center and network hardware. Their problems in consumer hardware are
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by cjsplat 3y ago
Depending on the numbers involved, previous generation hardware can waterfall to infrastructure apps that are throughput based. Things accessed through network APIs and billed per op or in aggregate. Distributed file systems, databases, eve
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by cjsplat 3y ago
Interesting. My Kaiser almost doubled from COBRA and coverage went from better-than-platinum to high deductible gold. Google / SF market.
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by cjsplat 3y ago
That 2016 phone couldn't be protected from Spectre family attacks without a ridiculous performance penalty. What is the point in "security updates" for a CPU that can't be made secure?
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by cjsplat 3y ago
While at Sun in the early 2000's, I was part of the due diligence team for an acquisition and had two days to review the entire code base of a 3 year old, 50 person software team. This was standard practice, and the M&A policies kn
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by cjsplat 3y ago
For example see : https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-semicond... I think you are overestimating the value and amount of help from ARM, especially in the more recent Graviton generations, but of course
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by cjsplat 3y ago
Impossible to know from the outside. We know what they are selling it for, but that isn't the same. True TCO needs to include the cost to develop the chip - after all, that is folded into the x86 price. If you assume that the Graviton
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by cjsplat 3y ago
Cloud services have a lot of back end. Cluster management, file systems, disk / storage systems, network management, database systems. None of those require user or OS instruction set compatibility for legacy apps that are hard or impo
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by cjsplat 3y ago
And with Coolidge's great persistence, he helped build the foundation for the Great Depression. It is possible to "press on" in the wrong direction.
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by cjsplat 3y ago
Nope. The Sun-1 MMU was segment and page registers indexed hierarchically off the physical addresses. It was a full page based system with segment and page level sharing and protection. The 68000 didn't support restart from page faults
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by cjsplat 4y ago
The front and rear wheels have different angles of attack on the vector of the car, so they have slightly different friction vectors. The result can be oversteer (when the back slide more) or understeer (back slides less). And it can change
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by cjsplat 4y ago
To be clear, the Pixel 2 is unsecurable at reasonable performance against Spectre style attacks. Might not matter to some.
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by cjsplat 4y ago
Yup - this is the correct answer
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by cjsplat 4y ago
Sure, but what is UDP bringing to the party then? The pseudoheader? A reasonable RPC layer could just layer on IP.
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by cjsplat 4y ago
Why would NTP be better with retransmisson of stale packets and go-back-N semantics on drops?
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by cjsplat 4y ago
Destinations can be described in the packet headers. That is how the current systems work.

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